Quentin: The Blog.

RANT: I hate those "Support our Troops" yellow car magnets.

As featured on the
Somethingawful forums (registration required to view), a poster brought up a discussion on a distrubing trend I've been seeing on many cars these days. If you stay in your house all day or don't live in the United States, many cars have these magentic bumper stickers in the form of the peace ribbon. Usually they wil say "Support our troops" or some variant of that. Some even go down that cliche religious route by saying "God Bless the Troops" or "God Bless America^TM". Some are even in Red White and Blue.

Not only they are the most annoying thing to put on one's car since the "Baby on Board" craze, if you are showcasing this on your car, are you actually supporting the troops by buying this? Most likely they are buying this shit from 7-11 where they tend to profit on it. Unlike the "livestrong" bands that (BTW Hi folks from Google for those who are looking for those bands, good luck : ) ) actually go towards charity, once again, American consumerism, not the troops are supported.

Raging against the machine now, I want to have one that says "Generic Peace Magentic Bumper Sticker" in the style of the infamous "City Name Sports Team" shirts that Lowtax is hustling.

G4TechTV to "air" sim NHL games...Jesus H Chirst.

G4TechTV, the infamous channel that pissed of 95% of Leo Laporte fans when they ditched "Call For Help" when G4 and TechTV merged is now trying to help worthless Hockey fans fucked by the lockout. They are simulating of all 1,200+ NHL games that were supposed to take place this season. Starting Oct 13th, when the season was supposed to start, "Sweat", their sports-gaming program will "cover" each "game". I'm unsure weither they are going to use ESPN NHL 2005 or EA NHL 2005, but who cares.

So hockey fans, you still have a season! Enjoy it on G4TechTV. Embarrasing videogamers since 2004!*

(*"The ScreenSavers, Pulse, Icons, Unscrewed and XPlay don't suck though.)

What I'm playing right now: The Sims 2.

I'm sure many of you folks out there have heard about "The Sims", the revolutionary life simulator created by Maxis/EA. It was released in 2000 and became a MASSIVE hit worldwide, selling constantly at the top of the charts for several years. It's 8 expansion packs released over the years sold also tremdously as well. (According to one guy, "It's like printing money.") Not only this game was popular with the general public, a significant number of its players are female. Console versions and an online version came later (with little fanfare for "The Sims Online" though). Now in 2004, Maxis and EA come along and drop the eventual sequel on us - creatively named "The Sims 2"

Unlike its predecessor which was a 3/4 perspective, "2" is fully 3-D with vastly improved graphics. Of course, knowing how god-like Maxis is, they would never just give it a graphical update. In addition to the familar features of the original, sims can now age, die of old age, get pregnant, make "woohoo" (they have to call it that or get an "M" rating), get sick...the list goes on. There are now infants, toddlers and old people instead of just adults and kids. Anothe big part of the game is the aspration system in which you must satisfy certain wants so they can live a better life.

I could go on all day about this, but just read the reviews online and judge for yourself. I suggest getting the DVD version as you don't have to install 4 discs. Plus you get a bonus DVD, though I haven't tried that one yet. This game is $49.99 and is for Windows-based PCs only right now. A Macintosh version I hear is in the works (Macs don't play games lol.). Rated "T" for Teens (Violence, Crude Humor, Sexual Themes).

I wonder how much will my life will be eroded due to this game. In the three days since I got the game, I played it for a total of 18 hours. I've only left the house about once...to get food.

Hooray! Hockey's gonna be locked out!

Hockey girds for long shutdown

Finally, the day I've been waiting for, the beginning of the end! I hate Hockey more than the 7th layer of hell for many reasons that I won't go into detail now since it's early in the morning, but the NHL has gone under a lockout as they squabble over money and shit. Wait? Is this the same NHL that has one of its teams get outnumbered in attendance to a minor leauge team? The same NHL that can't have its Stanley Cup final beat repeats of SpongeBob SquarePants? The same NHL that is "Canada's pastime"...with the majority of the teams in the USA?

I hope the NHL never returns and paves the way for more attention to the NBA which in my opinion is far superior.

Eisner's Ass is gone...

Eisner to Step Down (Yahoo! News Story)

Finally, Micheal Eisner's will no longer get to run Disney to the ground...at least until September 2006. The CEO of the Walt Disney Company who has run the company for 20 years will resign in two years. I guess the pressure of hordes of Disney-purists, Roy Disney and the SaveDisney.com krew did him in. Though, resigning is probably less humiliating than getting fired...no wait, most of the members of the board are friendly with him, so that could never happen.

I bet Disney fans all over the world who had to endure years and years of cheapquels, endless Pooh and Princess merchandise and such great endevors such as Disney's California Adventure are now dancing in the streets. For those that are not really into the mouse, Eisner is to Disney fans as George W. Bush is the Democrats - they both really, really hate this guy. The question now remains is who should replace Eisner? Apparently, Eisner wants to put COO Bob Iger, who turned ABC into must NOT watch TV. According the Yahoo! article, that is not likely. Also, who was the fuckwit who wrote the reuters article decided that Paul fucking Pressler should be a contender for running Disney? In a Disney fans' eye, that is the eqiuvalent of shitting on some one's face and setting in on fire. When Pressler ran the Parks and Resorts division (read: theme parks), he was notorious for being a cheap bastard (People blame his retail background for that, he used to run the Disney Stores, which ironically were doing fantastic before he left.). He is the last one in my mind to run the company.

While I'm not a CNBC analyst, I really don't know who should run the company? But what about Ray Rasulo, who is currently running the P & R division? I haven't heard any bad things about him and what about my nigga Al Wiess, current president of Walt Disney World?

Boy, these next two years are going to be very interesting. Maybe if we can get Pixar back, then the general public will start to take Disney more serious again.